Between Worlds

Between Worlds - Chapter 3

"On my sixteenth birthday I got the most shocking gift ever, it changed my life. I changed, literally. The morning when I woke up on my birthday weird thoughts were running through my head, thoughts like if I had the choice which animal would I turn into and stuff like that, I literally thought I was going crazy. But I did answer that question, I wanted to be a large and strong wolf; one that could cross a plain in an hour and run for miles without getting tiered, one that could tower over and horse and growl and howl like a real wolf but still be me and think and act like me. Little did I know that I would actually get what I wanted. At the exact hour I was born, I asked mum what time it was, I started to feel a pain, a pain that made me want to curl up in a ball and wish I had never been born, this pain started out along my spine but in a couple of minuets it had spread all over my body from my head to my toes."

I couldn't help but interrupt at that moment "that's why you went running out of your party that night, you were born at eight in the evening"

"Yes sis" he answered "now are you going to let me continue or not?"

"Yeah yeah sorry" I answered him quickly.

"Well the pain just continued for what seemed like hours. When I opened my eyes I saw the forest on the edge of town. Turned out I was in the trees. I tried standing up but realised I was on all fours and I could feel soft earth beneath what I thought were my feet on closer inspection I found that they were actually paws. I started to panic, I had no idea what was happening to me. then suddenly I heard a voice somewhere saying my name and saying that I was going to be alright and that everything was fine and not to panic and stuff like that. I tried following the voice but I couldn't seem to find out which direction it was coming from. Suddenly I saw two huge wolves running towards me, they looked like they were actually talking to me and that's when I realised that they were, but not through words from their mouths but through our minds. Then they explained everything to me. Imagine my surprise at all this."

"Wow" I murmured utterly entranced by the story my brother had told me. I couldn't even begin to imagine what all this must have been like for him. "Why didn't you tell me any of this?" I asked.

"How exactly could I tell you that I turned into a wolf on my sixteenth birthday Sam? Normal kids get drunk or throw an awesome sweet sixteenth party or even turn up for their party at all not turn into a wolf. And as if you would have believed me, you would have just accused me of reading your Twilight books and now I was trying to scare you or something. How do you tell anyone something like this Sam?"

To this I had no answer I just stood there staring at him, how could you tell anyone something like this? And he was right; I would have accused him of reading Twilight and trying to scare me. "But you could have shown me" I said, suddenly realising that he could have turned into a wolf to prove his point of being one.

"And have you scream and call animal patrol or something. I'm sorry Sam I trust you but I just couldn't take the chance. And no one is supposed to know about this anyways."

I let out a huff knowing that he was right, but then something else popped into my head he still hadn't told me how he knew Ariamis and Aaron

"Car" I started "how exactly do you know Ariamis and Aaron then?" I asked.

"Umm" Carsonstarted to say but Ariamis cut him off "as soon as we found out there was a new shifter who had come of age we contacted him asking if he would like to live with others of his kind. But he obviously refused since he is still here. But he needed to know who was his royalty and his leaders now, definitely not those pathetic excuses of humans you people have governing as you say over you." He sure didn't seem to like our presidents it seemed.

Just as I was about to ask Ariamis where exactly his world was when, a loud laugh cut me off. It was Carson who seemed to have joined Aaron in laughing his head off at something I still didn't know. "not you too" I said with a grimace and it must have shown on my face just how irritated I was since Carson and Aaron both seemed to laugh even louder. I really needed to find out just how loud someone could laugh since they seemed to have gotten impossibly louder now.